Apparatus for waxing floors



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F g= BY azawbw ATTORNEYIS United States PateiitO APPARATUS FOR WAXIN GFLOORS Harold Dowe Albright, Jr., Charlotte, N. C.

Application February 28, 1955, Serial No. 490,902

1 Claim. (Cl. 15131) This invention relates to paste wax applicators andit is an object of this invention to provide a wax applicator having ahousing which is particularly adapted for receiving and supporting acommercial container of wax or the like wherein after the top and bottomwalls have been removed therefrom and wherein novel means are providedfor forcing the Wax from the container onto the surface to be treated.

As is well known, paste wax is usually purchased by the user in a sealedmetal container or can and, here tofore, it has been necessary totransfer the contents of such container or can into a wax applicatorbefore it could be used. It is apparent that this transferring processhas been a time consuming and messy operation.

It is therefore a more specific object of this invention to provide animproved wax applying apparatus or wax distributing apparatus comprisinga housing having a recessed upper portion in which a piston may bepositioned. The container of wax, from which the top and bottom wallshave been removed, is positioned below the piston. cessed for receptionof the container or can so the inner surfaces of the walls of thecontainer coincide with the external surfaces or edges of the. pistonwhereby the piston may be forced downwardly against the upper surface ofthe contents of the container and inwardly into the container forforcing a desired quantity of wax from the container onto the surface tobe treated. Of course, removable means are provided for maintaining thecontainer in the housing, once it has been inserted thereinto.

Some of the objects of the invention having been stated, other objectswill appear as the description proceeds when taken in connection with,the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an isometric view ofthe improved wax applicator showing a portion of an operating handleconnected to the piston thereof;

Figure 2 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken substantiallyalong line 22 in Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a longitudinal sectional plan view taken along line 33 inFigure 1;

Figure 4 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken along line 4--4in Figure 1 and showing the wax in the container, the wax being omittedfrom the container in Figures 2 and 3;

Figure 5 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view through the improvedwax applicator taken substantially along line 5- 5 in Figure 3 andshowing some wax in the container and showing how the piston operates toforce the wax out of the container positioned in the housing;

Figure 6 is an isometric view, on a reduced scale, showing a typicalcontainer for wax before the contaiuer is inserted in the housing of theimproved wax applicator.

Referring more specifically to the drawings, there is shown in Figure 6a commercial type of container C The side walls of the housing are alsorep a 2,816,307 Patented Dec. 17, 1957 ICC which is typical of manydifferent types of containers or cans in which paste wax is purchasedfrom hardware stores and the like. In this instance, the wax container Cis shown in the form of a metal elongated rectangular container havingtop and bottom walls 2 and f, opposed end walls a, b and opposed sidewalls c, d. The top and bottom walls e, f are removed from the containerC, as by means of a conventional can-opener, before the container withthe wax W therein is inserted in the improved wax applicator which willnow be described.

The improved wax applicator comprises a main housing broadly designatedat 10 which comprises spaced end walls 11 and 12 and front and rearwalls 13 and 14. The end walls 11, 12 are provided with inwardlyprojecting top wall portions or flanges 15, 16 thereon. The flanges spanthe distance between the walls 13 and 14 and are suitably securedthereto or formed integral with the upper edges thereof.

Substantial portions of the walls 11, 12, 13, 14 are recessed orgrooved, as at 21, 22, 23, 24, respectively, on the inner surfacesthereof for reception of the respec tive walls a, b, c, d of thecontainer C. The recesses 21 to 24, inclusive, define respectiveinwardly projecting ribs or projections or shoulders 25 to 28,inclusive, on the upper ends of the respective walls 11 to 14,inclusive. Thus, when the container C is inserted in the recesses 21 to24, inclusive, in the respective walls 11 to 14, inclusive, the innersurfaces of the walls a to d, inclusive, of the container C aresubstantially flush with the inner surfaces of the shoulders or ribs 25to 28, inclusive. The ribs 25 to 28, inclusive, define a nest in which apiston 35, in the form of a flat rectangular rigid plate fits when itsupper surface is disposed against the inwardly projecting upper flangemembers or top wall portions 15, 16 of the main housing 10. Theupper'central portion of the piston 35 has suitable means indicated at36, for connecting a suitable handle 37 thereto. The handle 37 may be ofconventional or any desired construction and may be pivotally connectedto the central portion of the piston 35 in any desired manner and,therefore, a detailed description of the handle 37 and the maner inwhich it is connected to the piston 35 is deemed unnecessary.

It will be noted that each of the inwardly projecting flanges or topwall portions 15, 16 has a pair of transversely spacedguide rods ormembers 40, 41 depending therefrom and on which the plate or piston 35is guided as it is moved out of its nest, defined between the shoulders25 to 28, inclusive. Since the paste wax W is of a soft pliableconsistency, it is apparent. that the guide. rods 40, 41, whose lowerends .are free, 'will readily pierce the bulk of the wax material as thecontainer C is inserted in the housing 10.

Now, the housing 10 has an open bottom and, in order to facilitateingress and egress of the container C relative to the housing 10 and tomaintain the container C in the housing 10 while the improved waxapplicator is in use, the rear wall 14 of the housing 10 is hingedly orpivotally connected, as at 45, to the upper surface of a confiningplatform 46 which is provided with a substantially rectangular opening47 therein of substantially the same internal dimensions as the internaldimensions of the can or container C and the internal dimensions of thenest defined by the shoulders 25 to 28, inclusive. The portion of theconfining platform 46 opposite from the hinged connection 45 is providedwith a suitable pivoted latch 50 which is engaged with an abutment orprojection 51 on the front wall 13 when the confining platform 46 is inthe closed position shown in the drawings.

The opening 47 in the confining base or platform 46 is closed by aforaminated, pervious or porous pliable sheet or cover member 52, suchas knit fabric or cheese cloth whose periph al d es re sui bly hemmed fr reception of a draw string or elastic band 53, a draw string beingshown in this instance which is adapted to force the hemmed peripheraledges of the pliable sheet member 52 into a peripheral groove 54 formedin the outer periphery or edges of the base or container cone finingplatform 46.

In operation, the latch 50 is released from the abutment 51 and the baseor container confining platform 46 is swung away from the open bottom ofthe housing 10, After the upper and lower walls e, f have been removedfrom the metal container or can C, it is then inserted in the bottom ofthe housing 10 so the upper edges of the walls a, b, c and d of thecontainer C engage the lower surfaces of the shoulders 25 to 28,inclusive, respectively'. At this time, the plate or piston 35 may bepositioned in the nest defined between the shoulders 25 to 28,inclusive. The distance between the shoulders 25 to 28,, inclusive, andthe lower edges of the respective walls 1 1to 14, inclusive, issubstantially the same as the height of the corresponding Walls a to d,inclusive, of the container C.

Thus, after the container C has been inserted in the housing 10 in themanner heretofore described, the base or container confining platform4-6 is swung to closed position and the latch 50 is engaged with theabutment 51 so the upper surface of the platform 46 adjacent the opening47 engages the lower edges of the walls a to a of the container C tothereby confine the container C within the housing 10. It is apparentthat the improvedwax applicator is then ready for use and it is merelynecessary to apply downward pressure on the piston 35 to cause the pastewax W to be forced downwardly through the opening 47 in the main base 46to, in turn, force the wax W through the foraminated or pervious pliablesheet 52 and onto the floor or other surface to be waxed.

It is thus seen that I have provided an improved applicator for applyingpaste wax or other viscous or sernisolid material to floors and the likewherein the walls of the housing thereof are recessed for reception of acornmer cial type container of wax with means for securing the containerin the housing and wherein a piston is nested in the housing in such amanner that its peripheral edges correspond with the inner surfaces ofthe walls of theco'ntainer to thereby facilitate ready movement-- of thepiston through the container fordischarging the wax or the lilretherefrom.

In the drawings and specification there has been'set v forth a preferredembodiment ofthe invention and, although specific terms are employed,they are usedin a 'genericand descriptive sense only and not forpurposes of limitation, the scope of the invention being defined in theclaim.

I claim:

An improved wax applicator for transferring paste was onto a pIanarsurface from a substantially rectangular eontainer whose upper and lowerwalls have been removed comprising a substantially rectangular housinghaving spaced end walls and spaced side walls and having an open bottomand an opening in the top, an inwardly projecting shoulder on the upperportion of each of said end walls and side walls, said shoulders eachdefining a recess in the inner surface of the corresponding wall forreceiving the corresponding wall of the container, said shoulders beingspaced from the lower edges of the side and end walls of the housing adistance substantially the same as the height of the walls of thecontainer, :1 platelike piston positioned within the confines of theshoulders on said walls, a handle connected to said piston, meansrestraining upward movement of the piston relative to the shoulders,means positioned in the path of travel of said piston to guide the sameduring downward movement thereof away from said restraining means andwithin said container for extruding the wax from the container, perviousmeans closing the open bottom of the housing. means removabl'y securedto the lower edges of the walls of the housing-for retaining thecontainer in said recesses provided therefor in the'walls of the housingcomprising a substantially rectangular rigid base, means hingedlyconnecting said base to one of the walls of said housing, means toreleasably latchthe base in position against the lower edges of thewalls of said housing, said base having an opening therein whoseinternal dimensions correspond substantially to the external dimensionsof said piston, and said pervious'means being secured against the'lowersurface of the rigid base and closing said opening in the base whereby,upon manual pressure being ap'plied'to the piston, the piston forces thewax through the container, through the opening in the base and throughthe pervious means onto the, surface to be treated.

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